What The F#@$ Is Up With Colin Powell?

For those of us who consider ourselves to be conservatives,Colin Powell has a big problem with us. Apparently, according to the retired General, if you believe in a literal translation of the Constitution, and are not in line with this living document crap, then you’re guilty of racism. If you believe in smaller government, and one that is constrained in both scope and authority by those that are governed by it, guess what. That’s right, you’re a racist. Those of us who wish to see our government’s spending limited to the revenues raised through the least amount of taxation necessary, so that it may perform the minimal functions expressed by our founding documents are in fact one code word away from being the 21st century equivalent of those who lynched minorities just a scant century ago. Apparently, the mere noticing of this Administration’s complete incompetence in terms of the foreign policy that fomented the Benghazi disaster and the frightful subsequent handling of the inevitable consequence of that childish policy which followed, is the moral equivalent of a hate crime. Those of us on the political right have driven poor Colin from voting to support his Republican party, which he still counts himself a member of.

Before I go too much further in my rant of disgust with Powell’s recent behavior, allow me to say that I admire his long, distinguished, and honorable service to our nation. I thank him for all that he has done. That being said, there is a difference between his past and current actions. What ever benefits of doubt he earned with his service, he has used up, and then some. Just to put the point to the word hypocritical that has been so thoroughly earned by Powell, let’s do some score keeping, shall we? Powell served as a White House Fellow in both the Nixon and Ford Administrations. He served as a National Security Adviser to Republican Ronald Reagan. George H.W. Bush appointed Colin to be his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. George W. Bush made him his Secretary of State. To date, he has been appointed to nothing by any of the more tolerant Democrats who occupied the Oval Office. Colin Powell’s support of Barack Obama is his Constitutional Right. I applaud him for using his gravitas to support any candidate he chooses, he has earned that privilege to both hold that gravitas, and to use it in any way he sees fit. What I have a problem with is his usage of his gravitas to demagogue me, and any who agree with me because we would dare to disagree with him politically. Just for Colin, and any who might be swayed by his recent rap, here is the definition of demagogue.

dem·a·gogue /ˈdeməˌgäg/ Noun A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument. (in ancient Greece and Rome) A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people.

Special note for Powell’s family:

Please, for the love of God, get his Alzheimer’s treated already.

It is possible to support your chosen candidate and to keep the arguments focused on factual debate. It should be possible to be opposed to any one and not automatically labeled as racist or be bullied for holding an opposing view point. The discourse coming from the political left for years has been nothing more than ad hominems, straw men, non sequiturs, and the lowest form of divisive class warfare. Part of my reason for being so angry with General Powell is not just the fact that he switched sides and began drinking the liberal kool aid, such is his right as an American. It is that I had come to expect so much more from him in terms of honest discourse. Watching a person for whom I had so much admiration descend to this level of slime is painful to me on a very personal level. I gave him my personal trust and admiration, and he has so thoroughly destroyed that trust, that I am no longer interested in welcoming him back into any tent that I will ever occupy. He may be a perfect fit for the new Republican Party, once they’ve successfully purged themselves of any who hold the slightest resemblance of being principled.

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Colon’s Bowel should just declare himself an effing Democrat and leave us all the hell alone. But he has no value on the national stage as a libturd – his only value to the media is a Republican bashing other Republicans. Like that Morning Schmoe over at MSLSD.

Powell’s a whiney bitch, an odd personality trait for a General Officer, but there seems to be more and more of them. I’m beginning to think that, perhaps, Schwarzkopf was exceptional in more ways than one; he may have been among an ever-shrinking number of officers that put their country and their service ahead of their careers.

I thought he was a fake and phony ever since he landed on the national stage. After Desert Storm and his stint as Sec of State, he became less than that even. From phoney to traitor. The GOP’s problem is appealing to the so-called moderates. Stand on hard-rock conservative principles and the GOP would flourish. No one likes luke-warm, bland and tasteless.

Bowel needs to explain, and fully, how he let Scooter Libby go on trial when he knew that his own aide Richard Armitage had leaked Valerie Plame’s info to Novack. There is no HONOR anymore in Bowel. That was a dirtbag move.

On the Democrat ticket? He’d beat what else they have up, I guess. At one time he could have had the Republican ticket, but I think that time is over with. I’ve never liked him, politically. He was always too far Left for my tastes, and it is clear now that he harbors a racial resentment that is quite startling given his accomplishments in the world.

We could. That would be interesting. A Republican could win that. It would depend on the candidates. The Democrat Party seems to be staking its future electibility on the gun control issue. While that may excite the Democrat base, a substantial majority of Americans believe in Second Amendment rights. It’ll depend on what the Republicans do on the issue. Someone like Romney would leave it alone (as Romney did). Someone closer to the base though, like Marco Rubio could have a field day with it.

I actually think that if Perry had shown up at the debates in cowboy boots and shirt, and jeans, and given a nice, relaxed “yeehaw” or two, he would have wiped the floor with the other candidates. It was being buckled into his Sunday-go-to-meetin’ suit that did him in; he looked like an uncomfortable hired hand.

Actually, at this point the smartest thing would be for a large nationwide cabal of organized conservatives to run for office as Democrats.

Use the Soros money, the ACORN vote fraud, etc., etc., to conservative advantage to get elected. Take false-flag positions with the Democratic Party if necessary, until you get into the House or Senate. Then slowly but inexorably go “bipartisan,” crossing the aisle to work with Republicans and using nice PC rhetoric to make it sound good.

Actually, at this point the smartest thing would be for a large nationwide cabal of organized conservatives to run for office as Democrats.
Use the Soros money, the ACORN vote fraud, etc., etc., to conservative advantage to get elected. Take false-flag positions with the Democratic Party if necessary, until you get into the House or Senate. Then slowly but inexorably go “bipartisan,” crossing the aisle to work with Republicans and using nice PC rhetoric to make it sound good.
About ten years of that and the country would be back on track.

It’s a good plan but for some reason it just won’t happen. Republicans just don’t have the spine. Plus you can guarantee after the first few the dems would develop some kind of new election rules to limit it from happening (to them).

As I said earlier, the Democrats seem to be tying their future electibility to sellin ga reluctant American people on gun control. That is going to be a rough slog. The Liberal Northeast and Left Caost may love the idea, but the rest of the country loathes it. There are something like 14 Senate Democrats up for re-election in 2014, and a number of them come from gun friendly states. If they support Obama on this, they are likely to lose their seats. ANd it is for nothing unless the Republicans sell us out. There’s nothing going to get through the House without solid Republican support.

@ MacDuff:
As I said earlier, the Democrats seem to be tying their future electibility to sellin ga reluctant American people on gun control. That is going to be a rough slog. The Liberal Northeast and Left Caost may love the idea, but the rest of the country loathes it. There are something like 14 Senate Democrats up for re-election in 2014, and a number of them come from gun friendly states. If they support Obama on this, they are likely to lose their seats. ANd it is for nothing unless the Republicans sell us out. There’s nothing going to get through the House without solid Republican support.

That’s why O’s going to go with the EO route. It gives the dems cover for reelection. Plus he knows the republicans don’t have the spine or the numbers to fight them. And the courts will take so long that he’ll be long gone before they rule.

I’ve been a victim of violent crime. No one has contacted me to ask my views on the situation. I am very interested to see what Obama announces. He could break the back of the Democrat Party if he oversteps. The last time the Democrats got all froggy on gun control they lost the House and Senate for over a decade.

I do think there’s something to the New World Order/Illuminati stuff. Not as crazy as Alex Jones, but something is there.

Sorry I don’t. Kind of a Occam’s Razor thing. It can be disassembled analytically to a very simply premiss. “Those in positions of wealth and power act in their own self interest first and foremost”. They only act out of benevolence once their own self interests have been secured.

I don’ tthink it will give cover to the Democrats, though. Not if the GOP forces the issue. The Democrats in the Senate will have to give their tacit OK to anything Obama does. If the GOP is smart, they’ll make that explicit. I don’ tknow that the GOP will be smart with this, though. The GOP Elites like GHW Bush are quite fine with gun control. Second Amendment rights are just one of the things their base supports that they hold in contempt.

@ Mars:
I don’ tthink it will give cover to the Democrats, though. Not if the GOP forces the issue. The Democrats in the Senate will have to give their tacit OK to anything Obama does. If the GOP is smart, they’ll make that explicit. I don’ tknow that the GOP will be smart with this, though. The GOP Elites like GHW Bush are quite fine with gun control. Second Amendment rights are just one of the things their base supports that they hold in contempt.

@ doriangrey:
That dos not rule out that there’s a sinister cabal at work either.

There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. Read Goldbergs writings on the press.

When everyone at a certain level of power goes to the same parties, hangs out with the same people, and has the same obsession with power a conspiracy has no reason to exist, thought becomes homogenized toward the median though process for the area.

They only act out of benevolence once their own self interests have been secured.

I agree, except I think they only act in seeming benevolence when their interests coincide with said “benevolence”. I don’t think all the rich and powerful are evil (though Obama certainly is), but they are mostly amoral. That is the behavior our society rewards and idolizes. We are getting what we are paying for with our political class. We should set our standards higher, but this is the world of Honey BooBoo and Kim Kardashian. PEople like Lena Dunham really speak to a large percentage of voters.

@ Mars:
I don’ tthink it will give cover to the Democrats, though. Not if the GOP forces the issue. The Democrats in the Senate will have to give their tacit OK to anything Obama does. If the GOP is smart, they’ll make that explicit. I don’ tknow that the GOP will be smart with this, though. The GOP Elites like GHW Bush are quite fine with gun control. Second Amendment rights are just one of the things their base supports that they hold in contempt.

doriangrey wrote:
They only act out of benevolence once their own self interests have been secured.
I agree, except I think they only act in seeming benevolence when their interests coincide with said “benevolence”. I don’t think all the rich and powerful are evil (though Obama certainly is), but they are mostly amoral. That is the behavior our society rewards and idolizes. We are getting what we are paying for with our political class. We should set our standards higher, but this is the world of Honey BooBoo and Kim Kardashian. PEople like Lena Dunham really speak to a large percentage of voters.

This is largely while I am a full capitalist, I have to beat my head against the table over and over again everytime I defend corporations or banks then the dumb SOB’s turn around and do something completely heinous and asinine in full view of the press. It’s hard to defend capitalism when the examples behave like amoral assholes.

Mars wrote:
Iron Fist wrote:
@ Mars:
I don’ tthink it will give cover to the Democrats, though. Not if the GOP forces the issue. The Democrats in the Senate will have to give their tacit OK to anything Obama does. If the GOP is smart, they’ll make that explicit. I don’ tknow that the GOP will be smart with this, though. The GOP Elites like GHW Bush are quite fine with gun control. Second Amendment rights are just one of the things their base supports that they hold in contempt.
The GOP doesn’t have the spine to speak out.
Islamophobia myth destroyed by statistics.http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337417/hate-crime-stats-deflate-islamophobia-myth-david-j-rusin?pg=1

It’s NOT Islamophobia when they really are trying to kill you.

Very true. Read the article though, it is interesting which group claims the most attacks compared to the group most attacked. There is a connection there. The ones who are screaming the loudest are the ones attacking the group most attacked.

That’s what I am getting at. Let me give you a perfect example, Marco Rubio. When he was Florida House Speaker, he was very anti-Jihad. He used to warn about the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups. When he ran for the Senate He also warned about Radical Islam and Islamic aggression. Since he’s been in DC, he’s one of the biggest supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and wants to help al-Qaeda in Syria. He wants to continue foreign aid for Jihadi countries. He’s turned into a George W. Bush Democracy nation builder. I lost alot of respect for him in his Pro-Islamic stances.

How do we explain the group think of the media. You’d think a few would break away from the pack to score huge scoops and gain notoriety for taking down big dogs

Some of ‘em have made moves in that direction, but I think most of them are pretty untalented wretches who’s only redeeming value is that of being a loyal sycophant. They’re shallow and the gig pays well.

@ Mars:
That’s what I am getting at. Let me give you a perfect example, Marco Rubio. When he was Florida House Speaker, he was very anti-Jihad. He used to warn about the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups. When he ran for the Senate He also warned about Radical Islam and Islamic aggression. Since he’s been in DC, he’s one of the biggest supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and wants to help al-Qaeda in Syria. He wants to continue foreign aid for Jihadi countries. He’s turned into a George W. Bush Democracy nation builder. I lost alot of respect for him in his Pro-Islamic stances.
That’s a perfect example of what you have described.

waldensianspirit wrote:
How do we explain the group think of the media. You’d think a few would break away from the pack to score huge scoops and gain notoriety for taking down big dogs

Some of ‘em have made moves in that direction, but I think most of them are pretty untalented wretches who’s only redeeming value is that of being a loyal sycophant. They’re shallow and the gig pays well.

Once again Bernard Goldberg has explained this really thoroughly in his books. It really is some amazing reading.

It’s gotten to the point they don’t even need to punish any deviations from the groupthink, the reporters themselves will self edit.

That’s because the The GOP’s foreign policy establishment is dominated by Bill Kristol, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Dan Senor and the American Enterprise Institute gang. They think the Muslim Brotherhood is cool and nation building must be done.

@ doriangrey:
That dos not rule out that there’s a sinister cabal at work either.

Actually it does, as that wealthy and powerful are always in competition with each other over wealth and power. They make temporary alliances where their interests coincide, but are always looking for places to stab each other in the back.

There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. Read Goldbergs writings on the press.

Yes I understand that, but like I said above, They make temporary alliances where their interests coincide, but are always looking for places to stab each other in the back.

There is a mathematical field of study called Chaos Theory, boiled down to it’s most basic premiss it states, that no matter how chaotic a system appears to be, when observed from the correct perspective it’s underlying symmetry becomes evident. Oddly enough, this is also 100 percent true in the reverse. That which appears to have symmetry and order can in fact be random and chaotic.

In this case what it means is that the wealthy and powerful associate primarily with each other, because that’s where the highest concentration of wealth and power are. None of them became wealthy or powerful by accident, and none of them remain wealthy or powerful by accident. They are sharks swimming in a school of other sharks.

But make no mistake about it, they only act together when it is advantageous for them to do so, otherwise, they are their own biggest prey.

Do it for the Children! They can’t win on logic or facts, so they are trying to win on emotion. Who knows? They might. Emotional appeal has worked for Obama all his life. But as I said up-thread, they are bettin gthe future electibility of all Democrats on being able to sell gun control to a reluctant public that is setting records in gun sales because of the rhetoric coming out of the White House. Obama was doing well positioning the Democrats for 2014, but he could piss the whole shooting match away going for the Democrat’s Holy Grail.

@ Mars:
Yep, they lapse into groupthink.
That’s because the The GOP’s foreign policy establishment is dominated by Bill Kristol, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Dan Senor and the American Enterprise Institute gang. They think the Muslim Brotherhood is cool and nation building must be done.

Cheney is a great example of what happens to politicians in Washington.

He was one of the greatest guys to come out of Wyoming. He served the state loyally and even did an admirable job under Bush 1. Eventually though elitism ate him up too.

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, the man who compared Rick Santorum to Stalin, on Monday declared that the National Rifle Association “deserved to be equated with Hitler.” The arch-liberal cable anchor highlighted NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s contention that disarming the Jews partly contributed to the Holocaust. A horrified Bashir asserted, “And so with that theory being promoted by the NRA, we’ve seen the most abject and abhorrent suggestion that the President of the United States is somehow the equivalent of Hitler” on the issue of firearms.

Rodan wrote:
@ doriangrey:
That dos not rule out that there’s a sinister cabal at work either.

Actually it does, as that wealthy and powerful are always in competition with each other over wealth and power. They make temporary alliances where their interests coincide, but are always looking for places to stab each other in the back.
Mars wrote:
There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. Read Goldbergs writings on the press.
Yes I understand that, but like I said above, They make temporary alliances where their interests coincide, but are always looking for places to stab each other in the back.
There is a mathematical field of study called Chaos Theory, boiled down to it’s most basic premiss it states, that no matter how chaotic a system appears to be, when observed from the correct perspective it’s underlying symmetry becomes evident. Oddly enough, this is also 100 percent true in the reverse. That which appears to have symmetry and order can in fact be random and chaotic.
In this case what it means is that the wealthy and powerful associate primarily with each other, because that’s where the highest concentration of wealth and power are. None of them became wealthy or powerful by accident, and none of them remain wealthy or powerful by accident. They are sharks swimming in a school of other sharks.
But make no mistake about it, they only act together when it is advantageous for them to do so, otherwise, they are their own biggest prey.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced this afternoon that President Obama will unveil a “concrete package” of gun control proposals including assault weapons bans, high capacity ammunition magazine bans, and closing loopholes on background checks.

Carney said that the president will be joined by Vice President Joe Biden as well as children who wrote to the president after the Newtown shootings.

“They will be joined by children around the country expressing their concerns about gun violence and school safety, along with their parents,” Carney confirmed.

Of course. And I bet not ONE of those parents will be a member of the NRA, will own a gun, or will support cops in schools. This twit can’t do anything without staging it like an effing Broadway Show.

Perhaps the NRA and the GOP can stage a presser afterward that features it’s own cast – children and adults SAVED because a civilian had access to a firearm.

Not likely. I’d say Obama is immune to impeachment. The MFM would just claim it is racism in action. OTOH, if enough Senate Dems are scared of the 2014 election, he jus might wind up having some of his Executive Orders reversed. There’s no way he gets an “Assault Weapons” ban through the House unless Boehner and the Republicans want to emulate the Whigs. I think they like their cushy positions too much to commit Party Suicide like that.

Mars wrote:
Some of these kids are required to write these letters by their elementary school teachers. Saw this a lot during the Iraq war.
Could be. And given the nature of the Left they selected only the ones that supports their position.

Usually they don’t have to worry about that. I remember reading where students were required to make sure the letters supported the “right” position. If not the teacher made them rewrite it or get a failing grade.

I think you are right, but the Supreme COurt has already ruled that the Second Amendment applies to the States. There will be some interesting legal song-and-dance routines to try and square these new restrictive laws with that. We’ll see what the Supreme Court maes of it. You are also going to see pushback in States like Wyoming and Texas. The “State Rights” approach that the Left likes with this can cut both ways.

IN DC Occasional Reader reported being able to. Chicago not so much. It is becoming a real test of the Court’s authority. If the Court can be ignored as blatantly as these States are ignoring it, it isn’t much use then, is it? It does give Judicial cover for States like Wyoming and Texas, though, when they pass laws further protecting Second Amendment rights.

Comrade zero has shown the way in disregarding both the constitution and limits of office.

They can pass the laws, and by the time someone has been “injured” by an unconstitutional law in a way that gives them standing and the case works its way through the system, even if the states lose the damage could largely be irreversible. Not to mention fighting the clear ruling as D.C has done in the wake of the Heller decision.

How many gun shops are there in D.C. One maybe two? Dicks sporting goods in MD is already pre-emptively amending their inventory of firearms they sell. I assume the same for ammunition. I heard on Rush’s show, but I don’t know if true and scope that Walmart was suspending ammunition sales. The point being if they pass the laws and destroy the businesses that support firearms what are we left with?

That is a good question. Under Roberts, the Court is losing its Authority. In some ways this could be a good thing. I’ve never been in favor of an imperial Judiciary. OTOH, when real rights are in jeopardy, it is the Court’s place to correct the other branches of the government. If these gun controllers were serious about the Constitution, they’d propose amending it. The Second Amendment deserveds strict scrutiny, and that means most if not all gun control laws should be voided. The Court has tried to avoid that, but there really is no alternative unless they are willing to allow the Court to be flaunted or are willing to dismiss part of the Bill of Rights. I know four Justices would like to do exactly that. That’s the scary thing. People don’t seem to realize that if they can so cavalierly dismiss your Second Amendment rights, they can dismiss any and all of your remaining rights. Once you’ve let them take control of your guns, what, exactly, are you going to do when they take control of your Church? You’d think after Obama’s treatment of the Catholic Church people woudl be asking themselves that question, but Obama got a majority of the Catholic vote.

It will probably come to that unless the Church caves. This is a pretty fundamental violation of Separation of Church and State. I wish that it would hurry up and get to the Court, but if the Court strikes it down, what are they oing to do when Obama ignores them? They’ve let Chicago get away with ignoring McDonald.

I looked at my local Walmart’s ammo selection last weekend. It was nealy picked clean. A few boxes of 12 guage birdshot, a couple of boxes of 22-250, a couple of boxes 30-06 @ $45 for a box of 20, several boxes of .22 shorts, and that was about it.

WalMart has been low in the ammo department for the entire Obama Administration. It has more to do with supply and demand than any corporate policy. People are buying the ammo. I don’t think they are doing it because they are preparing to turn their guns in.

I don’t get ethnic “solidarity”. Apparently to these people it is more important for illegal Mexicans to have welfare than it is for them to have their religious freedom. Why? Beats the hell out of me.

Wal-Mart released a statement saying they have not changed their retail policies and have not stopped ordering ammo. They have the same problem everybody else has right now – supply not keeping up with demand.

I don’t get ethnic “solidarity”. Apparently to these people it is more important for illegal Mexicans to have welfare than it is for them to have their religious freedom. Why? Beats the hell out of me.

I really think this is Powell’s revenge for being hung out to dry with the whole “WMD in Iraq” reason for the Second Gulf War. Powell was the one who made the presentation at the UN in front of the “entire world”.

I really think this is Powell’s revenge for being hung out to dry with the whole “WMD in Iraq” reason for the Second Gulf War. Powell was the one who made the presentation at the UN in front of the “entire world”.

I am sure that there is a “so they sent the black guy to do their dirty work” component to this.

It really does not matter. People take the fall for administration screw ups all the time. It is getting to be a general risk of the job. Of course that is probably another reason we are getting toadies instead of leaders in politics now.

He actually would make a better defense secretary than Hagel (admitting of course that he would be the better of two crummy choices).

unclassifiable wrote:
I really think this is Powell’s revenge for being hung out to dry with the whole “WMD in Iraq” reason for the Second Gulf War. Powell was the one who made the presentation at the UN in front of the “entire world”.
That and racial solidarity.

@ RIX:
I don’t get ethnic “solidarity”. Apparently to these people it is more important for illegal Mexicans to have welfare than it is for them to have their religious freedom. Why? Beats the hell out of me.

That’s not why Hispanics voted for Democrats. Some did for free stuff others did because hey are convinced Republicans hate them. Heck part of my family who are Conservative and in the past voted Republican hates the GOP now. It’s not the illegal issue which drives this. It’s rhetoric some Republicans make about Hispanics as a whole.

Nominating Rubio who has issues on foreign policy will not be the answer. Infrastructure and outreach is the answer.

Forgive me but living in a border state where there is not much difference on either side of the border except that the English is on the bottom of the sign on one side and on the top on the other, I find this a little hard to beleive.

I suppose any group has got its share of dumbasses but if you got a public figure Republican dumbass in mind let’s get it out friend.

According to Powell’s book (which I read eagerly back in the day), he said he didn’t want to run for President because his wife was afraid he would be assassinated. Me thinks that maybe he is up Obama’s butt not just because of his race but that the O took a chance that Powell himself was afraid of doing. As for the rest of his extremely disappointing malarky — I got nothin’.